I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
If I want to take a particular form of blues somewhere else I have the equipment to do it but I never… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything like that before:… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
“The guitar poured out its soul, its history, its dreams, its pain, its victories, its secrets. The guitar’s strings purred with blues… — Brenda Sutton Rose Copy Share Image
When I picked up my guitar, I spent the first day learning the chord E, the second day A, then B7, and… — Ian Gillan Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan's one of the greatest blues singers of the western world; ancient art, on-the-spot improvisation, mind quickness, endless variation, classical formulae,… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“Screw the mid-life crisis Go have a mid-life spa day A mid-life quickie A midlife tiramisu But whatever you do DON'T give… — Sanjo Jendayi Copy Share Image
I think that as you get older, you mellow out a lot more. Having been through the ups and downs in life,… — Mick Ralphs Copy Share Image
Rock & roll seemed to just come to us, on the radio and in the record stores. It became our music. .… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
“Night after night on starry wings Night lovers soared so high Miles apart, across the oceans Their love forgot to sigh In… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
I'm a big, big blues fan and the last several years I've really invested in the blues a lot, and I think… — Vivian Campbell Copy Share Image
As I started to study old blues recordings and really pay attention to my favorites, it really started to come to me… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to explain the effect the first blues record I heard had on me, except to say that I recognized… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
'Soulfire' is a collection of stuff I've done in the past. Each song is an element of who I am: There's a… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
I've always loved the blues, ever since I was a kid. It has a depth to it that a lot of contemporary… — Nickolas Ashford Copy Share Image
The social realism of ' Establishment Blues' or 'Like Janis,' are what I chose to use to express what was happening in… — Sixto Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Cinderella obviously got caught up in the hair metal scene, but they were such a blues band. And such a good live… — Lzzy Hale Copy Share Image
I never wore a pink T-shirt before. Blue is my favourite colour and gives me good energy. I like doing my blues… — Sooraj Pancholi Copy Share Image
What's so powerful about the Psalms are, as well as they're being gospel and songs of praise, they are also the blues. — Bono Copy Share Image
Most Americans have a sense of what the blues is. But in Hong Kong, they have no sense of the blues. — Jess Row Copy Share Image
I've always had a love for music, and it developed as I learned jazz, blues, and gospel. And I performed with jazz… — Luke James Copy Share Image
The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to… — Alexis Korner Copy Share Image
We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want… — Michael Giles Copy Share Image
“A real musician ain’t gonna choose his own guitar like an evil master choosing his slave. The guitar will choose his master… — Brenda Sutton Rose Copy Share Image
Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
Any nobody from the folk blues world could avoid being influenced by Woody Guthrie, who is actually of Scottish-Irish ancestry. — Donovan Copy Share Image
From country rock to Cajun, classic rock to Latin, and blues to Americana, I've had the pleasure of re-discovering the 'jewels' from… — Shakin' Stevens Copy Share Image
The Moody Blues were a blues band, so when we got discovered, we were taken to London. That's where we started to… — Denny Laine Copy Share Image
You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from. — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
There's a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference is in a chord, but… — Jimmy Rushing Copy Share Image
The rhythm persisted, the unfaltering common meter of blues, but the blueness itself, the sorrow, the despair, began to give way to… — Rudolph Fisher Copy Share Image
Should the Moody Blues be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? That's absurd. Of course they should be. — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
A good plate of sushi after an opening helps to soothe that post-opening blues - especially since you feel like raw meat… — Jim Drain Copy Share Image
I was a big Pretty Purdie fan. I have heavy rhythm and blues influences, and that is what I bring to the… — Joey Kramer Copy Share Image
You don't need the frills and thrills to make something amazing. I think that's what inspires me with the blues. — ZZ Ward Copy Share Image
I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
I prefer a heart player; I prefer someone like a blues player, like Jeff Healey. Jeff Healey I think is tremendous. — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
Wherever I am in the world, I never get Sunday night blues. I suppose it's because I've never worked at any one… — Hayley Mills Copy Share Image
Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was… — D. B. Weiss Copy Share Image
